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Campos Montero, Fabian (author)
This thesis introduces a novel Generative Adversarial Network application called SchemaGAN, which has been adapted from the Pix2Pix architecture to take Cone Penetration Test (CPT) data as a conditional input and generate subsoil schematizations. For training, validation and testing, a database of 24,000 synthetic schematizations of size 32x512...
master thesis 2023
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Vrielink, Leon (author)
Interpretation of the thermal properties of soils is an important challenge in the field of geo-engineering, for example the development of geothermal energy solutions and for the design of electricity cable routes used for offshore wind farms. Of the thermal properties, the thermal conductivity is of most interest to find, as this determines...
master thesis 2022
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Smit, Freek (author)
Geothermal energy in the Netherlands is growing in general, however, medium deep geothermal (200 - 1500 m depth) is lagging behind while the potential at these depths could be very high. Development is held back by little geologic knowledge of this interval as well as legislative constraints. Better understanding of the reservoir characteristics...
master thesis 2022
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Hommes, Dewa (author)
New solutions for future flooding problems are becoming more important than ever before. Emergency measures against failure of flood defenses may play an important role in flood risk management and is therefore currently being investigated. One of these measures is the BresDefender, which is a submersible floating pontoon that can be placed on...
master thesis 2022
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van Esser, Beer (author)
High-level waste can be radiotoxic for thousands of years and should be carefully handled to prevent accidents. The research for geological disposal of radioactive waste focuses on the construction and durability of a geologic disposal facility in Dutch clays or salts. One of the challenges is assessing these host rocks’ capability to retard...
master thesis 2022
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Khedoe, Prashant (author)
The extraction and processing of mineral and metal ores in the mining industry comes paired with large amounts of mine waste, also known as tailings. This waste consists of various chemicals, acids, and heavy metals which are used during these extraction processes. The tailings are usually stored off in tailings storage facilities (TSF) in a...
master thesis 2022
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Novell Morell, Mònica (author)
Tailings storage facilities (TSF) are engineered structures that retain mixed waste material (known as mine tailings material) from mining processes in liquid or slurry form. One of the issues regarding TSF management is the lack of site investigation and sample analyses, which cause the uncertainty of geotechnical properties of mine tailings...
master thesis 2022
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Man, Coco (author)
To protect the Netherlands better from flooding, and with an eye on sea-level rise in the rest of the world, more accurate assessments are needed for dykes. The calculation for the most occurring failure mechanism in dykes, i.e. macro-instability, is limited by not being able to calculate large deformation when sliding occurs within a dyke. The...
master thesis 2021
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Kashichenula, Keshav (author)
Finite Element Analysis is an application used in many engineering fields, including geotechnical engineering. With increasing complexities of structures and material behavior, classical approach for non-linear finite element analysis has become computationally expensive (Gulikers, 2018). In order to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the...
master thesis 2021
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Voorn, Philip (author)
Dikes protect people and lands all around the globe. With rising sea levels, the importance of well-designed dikes has never been more essential. One of the main factors that can compromise the stability of dikes are macro-instabilities. Macro-instabilities can cause dikes to lose their water bearing potential, leading to floods. Methods are...
student report 2021
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Griffioen, Pieter (author)
The transition to renewable energy has lead to many new ways of energy production, such as wind and solar energy. For solar energy power, there is an excess of energy during summer and an deficiency of it during winter, which is reversed for the energy consumption. In order to amend this problem, there is an introduction of new ways of energy...
master thesis 2021
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Grubben, Tessel (author)
Geothermal energy reservoirs can be used as sources of renewable and sustainable energy. The concept of geothermal technology relies on the harvesting of heat from the deep rock by injecting fluid that circulates through the porous, fractured reservoir rock between the injection and production boreholes, and thereby transports the heat to the...
master thesis 2020
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van Lent, E.G. (author)
The stability of breakwaters in seismically active areas is not always guaranteed. A new approach to model a breakwater subjected to an earthquake is with PM4Sand. The goal of this research is to find if breakwaters subjected to earthquakes can be correctly modelled with PM4Sand.<br/>To investigate PM4Sand a breakwater subjected to an earthquake...
master thesis 2020
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Büller, Jeroen (author)
Throughout the years the requirements of sheet pile walls have changed. Therefore reassessment of these structure's reliability is of importance. In this thesis, Bayesian updating is used for the reliability updating task. Updating processes require measurements of the structure under known conditions. Although for practical and economical...
master thesis 2019
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Smouter, Chris (author)
High Temperature Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (HT-ATES) is a technique for storing large amounts of residual heat in the subsurface. In this report, the thermal deformation resulting from the temperature change in the subsurface is investigated and the resulting risks for buildings are assessed. To do this a case study is done on the TU Delft...
bachelor thesis 2019
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Rajvanshi, Ullas (author)
As of 2040, Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects an increase of 28% in world energy consump- tion. The majority of this consumption is projected to account from developing countries such as India, China and other third world countries since the economy is increasing rapidly. [3]<br/>In order to overcome this fast increase, the human...
bachelor thesis 2018
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Kalanaki, shayan (author)
By increase in knowledge and complexity of the projects, worldwide, more attention towards safety provision in projects is being paid. With growth in waterway traffic the need of safety provision for structures crossing navigable waters increases. Especially bridge piers and immersed tunnels on the see floor or at tunnel approaches are at bigger...
master thesis 2018
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van Montfoort, Mick (author)
This Thesis studies the safety assessment method for macro-stability of dikes with high foreshores. Currently, this method is a semi-probabilistic method, which does not take the presence of a foreshore into account. The research concludes that the presence of a foreshore has a significant influence on the failure probability with respect to...
master thesis 2018
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van der Hulst, Patricia (author)
One of the failure mechanisms for water retaining structures is piping. Piping is an internal erosion<br/>mechanism creating hollow spaces (pipes) underneath, for example, a dike as a result of the transport<br/>of soil particles due to seepage. The formation of pipes can cause collapse of the structure once the<br/>erosion process reaches the...
master thesis 2017
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Korosteleva, Irina (author)
Significant part of geotechnical engineering projects involve the problems related to jointed rock<br/>masses. For example, construction of tunnels in rock or stability analysis of the rock slopes. In this<br/>framework, the finite element modelling is often used for problems with complex geometries or<br/>where the analytical solution is...
master thesis 2017
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